Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-13

and eating positively nothing on Friday,
and II they went out it was to churcn,
chnrch. church-until you could not resi-.
DO we? Well, Iguess not. lake my dear
little cbnm. Clara Madison, for instance,
bo thinks she keeps Lent way up to the
handle. 1 called on her yesterday anu
found her in a dark brown ht,ngh
dress of rayishing simplicity, when she
informed me was one of the society gar
ments which she had substituted Tor her
worldly gowns. You never wouId nave
known Il was a penitential robe-lt was 80
cute I asked her if she could not come
ont IN the shops with me, and she SAID yes,
Int not until she had performed her deVo-
tiop She showed me her new Prie ata"
made by the principal art turmture'de
s;gner in town. 1t looked n trihe Tx one
of those little shut-up parlor ~step'aduers
Won often see. only it was made so you
conId kneel on the bottom step and rest
gonr elbows or arms on the top, where
yonr hook is placed. 1t was carved OUT Oh
California red wood and lnlald WIN gi'uei
brass and padded with peacock blue plush.
She opened her Episcopal prayer DOCK AT
the right place and, commanding me not
70 sneok, kneeled down and said the lesson
or The day. A pretty picture she made,
with her high bonnet, tasty Newmarket ana
dainty gloves, and the jingle OF her lewei-
ed bracelets keeping time TO her prayer
II was A deeply religious, ~penltentlal pic
tnre | want YOU to know. OF course l am
not Joking. dan,
von oueht TO be a better girl in a religious
way. You don't know what a comfort 1t
is. Already in these few days of Lent l
feel so refreshed and strengthened as
cannot begin to tell you. By the way,
come to our sewing class in the church this
afternoon. Our rector will he there, and
he's a perfect duck. And if | can I'll get
vou invited TO Mrs. acknowledgements
badminton party right afterwards. You
will see such a lot of exquisite dudes am
sure il will be fun for you.
The sewing class was in the rector
study. About forty ladies met, aud some
Goods. all cut and ready for sewing were
given out. / got the pieces for q newborn
baby's long dress-utterly useless for me
TO work on without a machine, and there
were no machines. But it didn't matter.
No one pretended TO work. All waited for
the rector. He came late and looked to
me rs if he had eaten too much dinner.
He praised the ladies for coming aud said
how good it was and kind ofthem TO think
of the poor of the parish and fit their chill
dren with garments properly made and OF
uood material. When he finished, the
ladies said they liked to labor for the poor,
but first they wanted to ask him II he
didn't think they ought to get iour new
sets of altar drapery for the church. lie
liked the idea, and so the ladies Wed with
one another in offering TO provide these
uecessaries, which, | was told afterwards,
they would he obliged to have made from
$50 to 500 a set. BOn-bOns were passed
around, and while every ones work lay IN
her lap, the talk was of riding parties,
uuiet birthday celebrations, readings, DC.
Ii seemed to me that | would not want to
work rs hard for my living rs these ladies
had to work in beating Old Nick around
the bush to invent Lenten fun and then to
enjoy it.
But | must tell you of one thing that
happened. My friend Clara started a dis
cussion OH Lenten dress, and nearly all the
ladies said they were completely lenten
clad from their stockings out. | WA taken
off my guard, for | had never supposed
there was any change in any but the outer
garments. ! venturcd TO say so. The wo-
men looked 1T me with panied surprise, but
Clara came to my rescue with an 'Oh, you
little pet, you have no more religion than
4 cat. Why, in Lent all Of us who are
strict. ..renounce the frivolities of the world,
the flesh and the Dickens, and if frills and
tuCks on your skirts and lace on y~our-the
rest of the things-Hren't frivOlities, I'd
like to know what are
AMY l.. WEAVER.